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Life on the wall: Vindolanda
History & The Arts

Life on the wall: Vindolanda

...everyday life on the edge of the Roman Empire, explains Robin Birley...[Excavations at Vindolanda] In the mid AD 80s, after the Romans withdrew from their forward positions in what is now Scotland, they constructed a timber fort half way along their supply road running from sea to sea, between modern Newcastle and Carlisle. They called it Vindolanda, probably putting into...
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Article 10 mins
The Financial Five a Day Podcast Series
Money & Business

The Financial Five a Day Podcast Series

...everyday lives. In addition to presenting All in the Mind on BBC Radio 4 she has written Mind over Money, a book around the psychology of money and how to use it better. In this interview, she discusses the commercial pressures we are under to spend – and keep spending. She explores some common cognitive characteristics many of us have around money, including loss...
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Introduction to differential equations
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to differential equations

...everyday life, in particular to applications such as population models and radioactive decay. You should now be able to: recognise differential equations that can be solved by each of the three methods, direct integration, separation of variables and integrating factor method, and to use the appropriate method to solve them use an initial condition to find a particular...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Queen Victoria on the Chartists
History & The Arts

Queen Victoria on the Chartists

...English, perfectly well; her German is very Prussian or Berlin German. Talked to Lord Melbourne of our journey to Scotland, and he said that it would never do, not to go - it would have such a very had effect, and that the late King's not going to the City, had had a deplorable effect. Unless anything very alarming or urgent, were to present us, we ought to carry out our...
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How the sausage links us together
History & The Arts

How the sausage links us together

...English the more than 60 different Italian words that exist to describe pork and beef sausages alone. Warm, dry climates encourage the preparation of air-dried sausage varieties, while Britain’s damp climate is more conducive to fresh, cooked bangers. Seasonings also typically reflected the larger flavour complexes of local cuisine: mushrooms in Hungary, pepper in...
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Article 5 mins
Why challenging sexual violence takes more than just a starring role at The Oscars
Society, Politics & Law

Why challenging sexual violence takes more than just a starring role at The Oscars

...English Collective of Prostitutes has demonstrated how sex workers are being failed by the police. The scholarship and activism of Beth E Richie, a professor at the University of Illinois and founding member of INCITE!, has highlighted how domestic violence is a key pathway to prison for black working-class women. Likewise, in the UK the Prison Reform Trust has found that...
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Sea level rise in London, UK
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in London, UK

...English Channel, and then up the Thames Estuary (Carbon Brief, 2014). From the evidence of the London Bridge high water mark, we know that the level has risen since 1780 by over 1.5 metres (Carbon Brief, 2014). Alongside ice melt increasing seawater volume other factors have important impacts on the changing sea level in London. Around 11,500 years ago ice sheets covering...
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Selling Empire: Posters
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Posters

...English landscapes for railway posters were commissioned, and depicted both British and Dominion pastoral landscapes in soft shades. Even when portraying Britain, though, many different artists and styles were employed. Clive Gardiner’s set of posters for Empire Buying Makes Busy Factories (many EMB posters were produced and displayed in sets of five) were starkly...
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